04-06-2013, 12:18 PM
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Re: A&E In Crisis
Originally Posted by Meg
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I was listening to an item on the radio this morning, apparently some people attending A&E are not actually registered with a GP and go to hospital instead when they require heath care.
05-06-2013, 04:14 AM
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Re: A&E In Crisis
What you need if you can afford it are 'triage centres' attached to A&E - you cannot get to A&E without going through triage - there you will be assessed may have a plaster applied and either allowed through to A&E or told to go home and see your GP - seems to work quite well in WA?05-06-2013, 08:09 AM
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Re: A&E In Crisis
Originally Posted by mindbender
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What you need if you can afford it are 'triage centres' attached to A&E - you cannot get to A&E without going through triage - there you will be assessed may have a plaster applied and either allowed through to A&E or told to go home and see your GP - seems to work quite well in WA?
We already have that matey - have done for many years in each and every A&E unit across the country.
05-06-2013, 08:33 AM
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Re: A&E In Crisis
Originally Posted by Rachel
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I don't read newspapers but get all the news I need from LBC (speech radio).Yesterday, there was mention of someone who took her child to A&E because she had dog poo on her shoe !
05-06-2013, 09:49 AM
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Re: A&E In Crisis
Originally Posted by Uncle Joe
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We already have that matey - have done for many years in each and every A&E unit across the country.
05-06-2013, 10:10 AM
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Re: A&E In Crisis
Originally Posted by mindbender
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oh really then not working heh?
It would seem so in parts of the country.
Not experienced A&E since the morning of Saturday 19th November 2011 and apart from the lengthy wait, things seemed to be OK
05-06-2013, 03:29 PM
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Re: A&E In Crisis
Originally Posted by mindbender
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oh really then not working heh?
Triage of all patients in A&E takes place but it seems that in many departments no staff are prepared to turn patients away. So all the triage does is prioritise them. If a patient has a trivial problem, they just wait longer.
Not sure how much this is due to fear of litigation and how much is due to the fact that if all attenders are booked through the system they get more money/higher numbers are put through the books. I have come across the practice of A&E booking patients in, triaging them, and then getting them seen by the out of hours GP - a practical solution in some ways, but of course the patient is still counted as being an A&E patient so keeps the numbers up...
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